ubuntu mini iso didnt ask to instal xubuntu

After you do this save the file and try it out since your external drive is plugged in it will give you the grub menu choose ubuntu and it should load up. OK in this text file we need to make just a few changes whenever you see (hd1,0) you will need to change this to (hd0,0) for mine i had to change these.WHERE MINE SAID ROOT IT WAS ORIGINALLY (hd1,0) so i changed ONLY these to (hd0,0). This is only a temporary change though what i had to do next once ubuntu was loaded up was edit the grub config file now to do this all i had to do was open the terminal and type this command gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst this will ask you for your password then you will get a text file. when the ubuntu was highlighted on the grub menu i hit 'e' then it will give you something like (hd1,0) make sure this is highlighted and then hit 'e' again now what you need to do is change the 1 to a 0 so it should look like this (hd0,0) after you do this hit 'b' and Ubuntu should boot up. YOUR NOT DONE THOUGH as you can see when you the grub menu comes up when your external drive is plugged in and you choose to boot Ubuntu it will give you and error. ONLY if you changed your bios like i explained in the beginning. Then install Ubuntu once the installation is complete you should get then grub menu when you reboot and your external drive is plugged in and your windows xp should boot if your external is not plugged in. You need to change this to whatever came up when you typed fdisk -l in my case i would type /dev/sda in the place of (hd0). when you get the the last step before you actually install i had to open the terminal and type this command fdisk -l once you do this it will say somehting like Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes this is my external drive so after i got this information the last step has a button that says advanced i believe click this and it will say something about where to install the boot or something like that it will have something like (hd0) i believe. Now what i had to do is reinstall Ubuntu i followed the steps when it got to the partition part i wanted to use all of my external drive so i chose that option make sure you know which drive is which though you don't want to erase whats on your laptops drive!!! after this follow the on screen directions for everything. After this your windows should boot up normally. Reboot from the Grub cd and choose the english then windows and then fix mbr its something of that sort.

You want to change your bios so that it boots from you External drive and then your internal drive.

You have to fix the mbr before you do anything since i didn't have my xp cd i had to download the Super Grub Disk burned this to a cd as and iso image. Hey i had this same problem heres what i had to do since i screwed up my mbr when i installed ubuntu.

Ubuntu mini iso didnt ask to instal xubuntu